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Title

Heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me : tout au long sans rie[n]s requerir : auec les figures de la vie de lho[m]me & la destructio[n] de Hierusale[m].

Author

Catholic Church

Publication

Nouuelleme[n]t imprimees a Paris : Par Guillaume Anabat imprimeur ... pour Gillet Hardouyn libraire ... et pour Germain Hardouyn libraire ..., [approximately 1507]

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Additional Authors

• Pichore, Jean, active 1502-1520
• Vostre, Simon, active 1488-1520.
• Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510.
• Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
• Anabat, Guillaume, active 1505-1510
• Hardouyn, Gilles, 1455?-1529?
• Hardouyn, Germain, active 1500-1541

Description

[232] pages : illustrations; 26 cm (4to)

Uniform Title

Book of hours

Alternative Title

• Book of hours
• Heures à l'usage de Rome
• Hore intemerate Virginis Marie secundum usum Romane curie
• Horae intemeratae Virginis Mariae secundum usum Romanae curiae
• Horae B.M.V.

Subject

• Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528 > Adaptations
• Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. > Latin
• Catholic Church > Prayers and devotions > Early works to 1800. > French (Middle)
• Bible. > Illustrations > Early works to 1800
• Books of hours > France > Texts > Early works to 1800
• Books of hours > France > Illustrations > Early works to 1800
• Devotional calendars > Early works to 1800
• Dance of death in art > Early works to 1800
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance > France
• Jerusalem > History > Art and the siege. > Siege, 70 A.D

Genre/Form

• Metal cuts – France – 16th century.
• Woodcuts – France – 16th century.
• Illuminations – France – 16th century.
• Vellum printings (Printing) – France – 16th century.

Note

• This edition is identical in textual content and collation with another, designated "Edition with narrow borders." In the present edition, the borders on text pages measure approximately 200 x 120 mm and the cuts which compose them include the "Vie de l'homme" (Dance of Death) and "Destruction de Hierusalem" sequences mentioned on the title page and in the colophon. In the edition with narrow borders, the borders measure approximately 185 x 115 mm and do not include these sequences. See Renouard (cited below), no. 65A (edition with narrow borders) and 65B (edition with wide borders). Other illustrations also differ; only the present edition includes 3 full-page borderless metal cuts, which are replaced in the edition with narrow borders by smaller cuts within borders.
• Imprint from colophon on leaf P4v, which reads: A la louenge de dieu & de la tres glorieuse vierge Marie: et de monseigneur Sainct Iehan leuangeliste. Et a ledificacion de tous vrays catholicques. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans rie[n]s requerir. Avec les figures de la vie de lhomme: et la destruction de Hierusalem ensemble. Et pareilleme[n]t les figures de lapocalipse: & plusieurs autres belles hystoires faictes a la mode de Ytalie. Ont este nouuelleme[n]t imprimees a Paris par Guillaume Anabat imprimeur demoura[n]t en la rue Sainct Ieha[n] de Beauuays a lenseigne des Co[n]nis pres les gra[n]des escolles de Decret. Pour Gillet Hardouyn libraire demoura[n]t au bout du pont au Cha[n]ge a lenseigne de la Rose. Et pour Germain Hardouyn libraire demourant deuant le Palays entre les deux portes a lymaige Saincte Marguerite. Tout pour le mieulx.
• Date of printing inferred from presence of almanac for the years 1507-1520 (leaves A2r-A8r) and the first appearance of large (quarto) metal cuts from the series from Jean Pichore's workshop for the Hardouyns (leaves A8v, B3v, C1r, D4v, N4r).
• Signatures: a⁸ B-I⁸ k⁸ L-O⁸ P⁴. $3 signed, roman (-a1, a2, H2, P3; +F4). In gatherings B-I, the first leaf is signed with a majescule and subsequent leaves with minuscules; in gathering a, only "a.iii" is signed; gathering k is signed with minuscules throughout; gatherings L-P are signed with majescules throughout. Leaves B3 and H3 are missigned "b.ii" and "g.iii" respectively.
• Printed on vellum in bastard type (borders: small gothic). Leaf B1r: 29 lines; area of text: 135 x 71 mm, within decorative borders (201 x 119 mm). An "R" in the signature line of the first leaf of gatherings B-P indicates usage of Rome.
• For discussion of illustrations, see Horae B.M.V. : 158 Stundenbuchdrucke der Sammlung Bibermühle, 1490-1550 / herausgegeben von Heribert Tenschert und Ina Nettekoven, 2003, no. 105-106; also pages 534-537, 736-741 (cited below as Horae B.M.V. (Tenschert & Nettekoven)).
• Illustrations: 1 full-page image consisting of 5 metal cuts, copies after Simon Vostre's Zodiac, within a 4-part architectural border: a cut of anatomical man as skeleton (91 x 43 mm) surrounded by 4 smaller cuts (35 x 17 mm) depicting the humors, with letterpress (leaf a1v). -- 3 full-page (quarto) metal cuts without borders (each approximately 200 x 125 mm), described by Horae B.M.V. (Tenschert & Nettekoven) as by Jean Pinchore and his workshop for the Hardouyns: St. John boiled in oil (leaf A8v), the arrest of Christ in Gethsemane (leaf B3v), and the Annunciation (leaf C1r). -- 2 full-page images consisting of large (quarto) metal cuts (each approximately 160 x 102 mm) within architectural borders; the images are also from the quarto series ascribed to Pichore and his workshop for the Hardouyns: the flagellation of Christ, within a 4-part architectural border (leaf D4v); the Virgin Mary with emblems of the Immaculate Conception, surrounded on 3 sides by architectural borders of which the subjacent border contains 3 lines of inset printed text (leaf N4r). -- 14 full-page images consisting of smaller (octavo) metal cuts (each approximately 122 x 79 mm; 1 repeated) with the central subject surrounded by a varying assemblage of 4-part architectural borders decorated with putti, festoons and other ornaments, most with inset letterpress in the subjacent border; the images are from the octavo series ascribed to Pichore's workshop for the Hardouyns, the borders are influenced by and in some cases directly copied from Vostre: the Church and 3 Virtues (leaf B8v); Augustus and the Tiburtine sibyl (leaf C8r); the Crucifixion (leaf D5r); the death of the Virgin Mary (leaf D6r); the Nativity (leaf D7r); the annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (leaf E2r); the Adoration of the Magi (leaf E5r); the presentation of Christ in the temple (leaf E8r); the Flight into Egypt (leaf F3r); the death of the Virgin Mary (repeated) (leaf F7r); David ordering the death of Uriah (without text) (leaf G7v); the death of Uriah (leaf G8r); Lazarus and Dives (without text) (leaf H8v); the raising of Lazarus (leaf I1r). -- 26 small cuts (1 repeated; each 32-42 x 22 mm) of figures, primarily saints, most on criblé grounds: St. Luke the Evangelist (leaf B1v); St. Matthew the Evangelist (leaf B2r); St. Mark the Evangelist (leaf B3r); God the Father as Salvator Mundi (leaf L1r); Christ as Man of Sorrows (leaf L1v); Pentecost (leaf L1v); Archangel Michael with devil (leaf L6r); St. John the Baptist (leaf L6v); St. John the Evangelist (leaf L6v); Saints Peter and Paul (leaf L7r); St. James the Greater (leaf L7r); St. Stephen (leaf L7v); St. Lawrence (leaf L8r); St. Christopher with Christ Child (leaf L8r); St. Sebastian with archer (leaf M1r); St. Nicholas with 3 boys (leaf M1v); St. Claudius (leaf M2r); St. Anthony; (leaf M2v); St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary (leaf M2v); St. Mary Magdalen (leaf M3r); St. Catherine (leaf M3v); St. Margaret (leaf M3v); St. Barbara (leaf M4r); St. Appollonia (leaf M4v); God the Father as Salvator Mundi (repeated) (leaf M8v); the Annunciation (leaf N1r). Some of these cuts reappear as border elements on other leaves. Horae B.M.V. (Tenschert & Nettekoven) attributes 5 of these cuts (Saints Luke, Matthew, and Mark, Pentecost, and the Annunciation) to Jean Pichore's workshop and the rest to the circle of the Master of the Apocalypse Rose of Sainte Chapelle, also known as the Master of the Unicorn Hunt.
• Variants: Renouard records only 2 cuts without borders, on leaves B3v and C1r.
• Spencer Coll. copy: Cut of the death of the Virgin Mary only visible on leaf F7r; on leaf D6r is a miniature with subject of the Pentecost, apparently painted over the cut, surrounded by a gilt architectural border with the original 3-line letterpress caption: "O D[o]mine labia mea aperies. Et os meu[m] annunciabit laude[m] tua[m]. Deus."
• Metal-cut publisher's device of Gilles Hardouyn (Renouard, Philippe. Les marques typographiques parisiennes des XVe et XVIe siècles, no. 429) on leaf A1r: Hercules and the rape of Deianira by the centaur Nessus (120 x 78 mm) within a 4-part architectural border, of which the subjacent border contains the work's title.
• Text pages within a variety of decorative and historiated woodcut and metal cut borders ascribed to Jean Pichore's workshop for the Hardouyns, most printed from seven or more separate blocks, many with inset letterpress captions in French or Latin. The rectos of leaves C2-I8 contain images from the 2 cycles mentioned on the title page and in colophon (most with captions in French): the Destruction of Jerusalem (bas-de-page) and the "Vie de l'homme," a variation on the Dance of Death (fore-edge). The rectos of leaves L1-L8 contain images from a Nativity cycle with captions in French. The rectos of leaves M3-M8 contain images from an Apocalypse cycle, adapted from Dürer's Apocalypse, with captions in Latin. Various images from the Jerusalem and the Apocalypse cycles also occur elsewhere, without captions. Among other cuts included are hunting scenes and Italianate ornamental cuts with putti.
• Spencer Coll. copy: The 21 full-page cuts (including the title page device and the large cut surrounded by four smaller ones on title page verso) and the 26 small cuts chiefly depicting saints are fully illuminated in gold and colors; the architectural frames of the full-page cuts are heavily gilt, obscuring details of the originals, and the 3 borderless cuts are in plain gilt frames. Rubricated: Initials, capitals and paragraph marks in gold on red and blue grounds.
• Leaf a2r: Almanach pour xiiii ans. Leaf B1r: Initium Sancti Eua[n]gelii secundum Iohannem. Leaf B8r: Hore intemerate Virginis Marie secundum usum Romane curie incipiunt feliciter. Leaf P3v: Sensuit la table de ces p[re]sentes heures ...

Indexed In (note)

• Universal short title catalogue
• Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle
• Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire
• Horae B.M.V. (Tenschert & Nettekoven)
• Lacombe, P. Livres d'heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques publiques de Paris
• Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle
• Renouard, P. Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle

Language (note)

• In Latin, with some portions in Middle French.

Provenance (note)

• Unidentified coat of arms supplied as part of the illumination in the blank shield of the publisher's device (per pale, or, on a bend sable three ermine spots argent and in chief a label gueules, and azure, three eight-pointed mullets, or). "F. de la Fontaine, prestre, à Chateauthierry" (inscription on binder's blank at end); Henry B.H. Beaufoy, Esq, (armorial bookplate).

Binding (note)

• Dark purple morocco, gilt, by Mackenzie; signed at foot of verso of free front endpaper: "Bound by Mackenzie." Sides with a series of three rectangles each composed of two ornamented fillets, including center panel containing fleurons. Edges gilt. With two pairs of gold clasps.

Contents

Almanac, 1507-1520, and calendar (leaves A2r-A8r) -- Gospel lessons (leaves B1r-B8r) -- Hours of the Virgin with mixed Hours of the Holy Cross and Holy Spirit (leaves C1v-G7r) -- Seven Penitential Psalms and litany (leaves G8r-H8r) -- Office of the Dead (leaves I1r-K8v) -- Suffrages and prayers in Latin (leaves L1r-M4v) -- Prayers in Latin and French (leaves M4v-N3v) -- Hours for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (leaves N4r-N7r) -- Five prayers of St. John the Evangelist in honor of the Virgin Mary (leaves N7r-N8v) -- Seven prayers of St. Gregory (leaves N8v-O1r) -- Office of Our Lady of Pity, in French (leaves O1v-O4v) -- Suffrages and prayers in Latin and French (leaves O4v-P3r) -- List of contents and colophon (leaves P3v-P4v).

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1507 (Catholic. Heures)

OCLC

435879098

Author

Catholic Church.

Title

Heures a lusaige de Ro[m]me : tout au long sans rie[n]s requerir : auec les figures de la vie de lho[m]me & la destructio[n] de Hierusale[m].

Publisher

Nouuelleme[n]t imprimees a Paris : Par Guillaume Anabat imprimeur ... pour Gillet Hardouyn libraire ... et pour Germain Hardouyn libraire ..., [approximately 1507]

Edition

[Edition with wide borders]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Universal short title catalogue, 1018 http://ustc.ac.uk/index.php/record/1018

Bibliographie des éditions parisiennes du 16e siècle, BP16_100930 http://bp16.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41873943x/

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, V, col. 1633, no. 229

Horae B.M.V. (Tenschert & Nettekoven), no. 105-106

Lacombe, P. Livres d'heures imprimés au XVe et au XVIe siècle conservés dans les bibliothèques publiques de Paris, entry 159 bis

Moreau, B. Inventaire chronologique des éditions parisiennes du XVIe siècle, v. 1, page 237 (1507, no. 100)

Renouard, P. Imprimeurs et libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle, v. 1, no. 65B

Language

In Latin, with some portions in Middle French.

Binding

Dark purple morocco, gilt, by Mackenzie; signed at foot of verso of free front endpaper: "Bound by Mackenzie." Sides with a series of three rectangles each composed of two ornamented fillets, including center panel containing fleurons. Edges gilt. With two pairs of gold clasps. NN

Provenance

Unidentified coat of arms supplied as part of the illumination in the blank shield of the publisher's device (per pale, or, on a bend sable three ermine spots argent and in chief a label gueules, and azure, three eight-pointed mullets, or). "F. de la Fontaine, prestre, à Chateauthierry" (inscription on binder's blank at end); Henry B.H. Beaufoy, Esq, (armorial bookplate). NN

Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Pichore, Jean, active 1502-1520, illustrator.

Vostre, Simon, active 1488-1520.

Master of the Unicorn Hunt, active approximately 1480-1510.

Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528. Apocalypse.

Anabat, Guillaume, active 1505-1510, printer.

Hardouyn, Gilles, 1455?-1529?, publisher.

Hardouyn, Germain, active 1500-1541, publisher.

La Fontaine, F. de, former owner.

Beaufoy, Henry Benjamin Hanbury, 1786-1851, former owner.

Mackenzie (Binder), binder.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1507 (Catholic. Heures)